Yarn-controller.



Patented Mar. 27, I900.

T. ASHWORTH. YARN CONTROLLER.

(Application filed Feb. 20, 1900.]

(No Model.)

W/ TA/ E a s a 6 r v/{zfdf 71/0/0176 Hal/WORTH Mm I777'ORNEVQ'.

TR: Nonms PETERS co. Imu'rmJmo,v wasmwomu. n. c

NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

THOMAS ASHWVORTH, OF URMSTON, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN SHAIV GAUNT, OFMANCHESTER, ENGLAND.

YARN-CONTROLLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 645,931, dated March27, 1900.

1 Application filed February 20,1900- Serial No. 5,908. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS ASHWORTH, a subject of the Queen of GreatBritain and Ireland, residing at Urmston, near Manchester, in the countyof Lancaster, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in orApplicable to Frames for Spinning and Doubling Fibrous Substances, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to frames for spinning and doubling fibroussubstances, the object of the invention being to prevent the ballooningof the yarn as it is being wound onto the spindle, spool, or tube, andalso in the event of a thread breaking to prevent the end from flyingout and becoming entangled with the adjacent threads.

The manner in which my said invention is to be performed or carried intopractical effect Will be readily understood on reference to the annexedsheet of drawings, marked with letters of reference corresponding withthose in the following explanation thereof.

Figure 1 on the drawings is a front view, Fig. 2 a side elevation insection, and Fig. 3 a plan View, of an an tiballooning shield madeaccording to my improvements. Fig. 4 is a side elevation showing aslight modification of the same.

The invention consists principally in the combination, with a curvedshield of sheet metal or other suitable substance (1, which extendsaround the sides and back of each spindle, spool, or tube, and thusisolates each one from its next adjacent ones, of a wire ring I),attached to the top part of such shield and of such a'diameter that itwill not allow the thread to balloon out to any great exend of the frameand so mounted on brackets or otherwise that the bar or shaft can berocked so as to tilt all the shields backward, so as to be out of theway during doffing. The rings are split, with one end overlapping, so asto leave an opening at 0, through which the thread can be passed intothe center, and they are attached to the top of the shields a at such aheight that when they are rocked over backward for doffing the saidrings will just clear the tops of the spindles. Before starting theframe afresh after doffing, the bar or shaft is caused to rock forward,so as to bring all the antiballooning shields and their rings back againinto working position,

Instead of making the top ring b from a piece of wire bent up into theform of a ring, with the ends overlapping, as shown on Figs. 1, 2, and3, I prefer to pass one-end of the wire through a hole in the shield aand solder it to the back at the lower part and bend the other aroundthe front, with its end nearly touching the inside of the shield at atthe 0pposite side, as shown at Fig. 4.

I claim as my invention- The combination with a curved antiballooningshield of metal or other suitable substance, extending around the sidesand back of each spindle spool or tube, of a wire or other split ringfixed thereto at or near the top thereof substantially in the manner andfor the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS ASHWORTH.

Witnesses:

JNo. HUGHEs, J. ERNEST HUGHES.

